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Making Request

This document provides examples of making requests in English using common polite phrases like "Can/could you...", "Do you think you could...", and "I'd be grateful if you could...". It includes sample request dialogues and situations to practice constructing request dialogues using "would" or "could". Specifically, it gives two sample conversations, one at a post office where a pen is borrowed and another where someone's birthday is asked, to demonstrate polite request language. It concludes by listing three situations to generate request dialogues for, such as borrowing a bicycle or camera, or asking someone to tell a ghost story.

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Making Request

This document provides examples of making requests in English using common polite phrases like "Can/could you...", "Do you think you could...", and "I'd be grateful if you could...". It includes sample request dialogues and situations to practice constructing request dialogues using "would" or "could". Specifically, it gives two sample conversations, one at a post office where a pen is borrowed and another where someone's birthday is asked, to demonstrate polite request language. It concludes by listing three situations to generate request dialogues for, such as borrowing a bicycle or camera, or asking someone to tell a ghost story.

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COMMUNICATION ENGLISH (BBA3102)

EXCERXISE/NOTE

Making Request | English Conversation Dialogues


Learning English Conversations and please practice the dialogues by using useful phrases below:
Useful Phrases
Can/ could you open the window, please?
Do you think you could open the window, please?
Im sorry to trouble you, but
I hope you dont mind my asking, but
I wonder whether you could open the window.
Id be (very) grateful if you could open the window.
Please do me a favor by opening the window.
Would it be possible
Would you be so kind as to open the window?
Would you mind opening the window, please?
Etc.
Messages with statements:

Requests:

The meeting is on Friday

Please tell Ann the meeting is on Friday.


Would you tell her?
Could you tell her?

Messages
imperatives:
Phone me this afternoon.

with

Requests:
Please ask him to phone me this afternoon.
Would you ask him to?
Could you tell him to?

Examples of English Conversations:


1. At The Post Office
Fabien
: Excuse me. Could you give me your pen for a moment please?
Brad
: Im really sorry. It doesnt write well.
Fabien
: Thats alright.
Brad
: (to another person) Would you mind lending me your pen, please?
Fabien
: Certainly not. Here you are.
Brad
: Thank you
2. You want to know someones birthday.
Myself
: Hello, Rina. Rina : Hello.
Myself
: How are you? Rina : Fine. And you?
Myself
: Iam fine too. Please come to my house in the afternoon.
Rina
: Why? Myself : Today in my birthday.
Rina
: Happy birthday to you.
Myself
: Could you please tell me your birthday? I want to wish you.
Rina
: Sure. Its on 11 March.
Myself
: Thanks.
Rina
: Welcome.

COMMUNICATION ENGLISH (BBA3102)

EXCERXISE/NOTE

Make a request dialogue. Use would or could. Read the following situations.
1. You want to go to the fish market. You would like to borrow your friends bicycle.
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2. You want someone to lend you a camera during a picnic at Lake Garden, Taiping.

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3. You want your cousin to tell you a ghost story.

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